USRE754E - Improved billiard-table cushion - Google Patents

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lUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JCHN M. BRUNSWICK, CF. CINCINNATI, CHIC.

IMPROVED BILLIARD-TABLE CUSHION.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 18,799, dated December July 12, 1859.

8, 1857; Reissue No. 754, (lated To aZZ- whom it may concern: ofthe cork @and rubberd. fis a piece of leather Be it known that I, JOHN M. BRUNSWICK, arranged in front of the pasteboard c. of Cincinnati, in the county ot' Hamilton and piece of cloth which forms the outer covering State of Chio, have invented a new and use.- of the cushion by the arrangementof the cork ful Improvement in Billiard-Table Cushions; c in rear ofthe rubber d.

and l do hereby declare that the following is As above described, l am enabled fully to a full descriptionthereof, reference heilig had preserve the elastic to the accompanying drawings and the letters by means of which t of reference marked thereon, making part of rebound with proper force, and also to pretliis specitcation. vent jarring or noise. Vhen the hall strikes The nature ofthe invention consists in the the cushion, the pasteboard e and leatherf. order ofthe arrangement ot' the materials used a'ord to the cushion a solidity of surface, so for making a billiard-table cushion. that the ball may leave the cushion at the Figure 1 is a perspective view of rail for l proper angle. billiard -talile provided with the improved l What I claim as xn properties of the rubber, he ball is always made to y invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

That order inthe arrangement of the materials composing a billiard-table cushion which places the-cork in the rear, the rubber in front the forni represented, and provided with the of it, and the paper, leather, and cloth, or the key b, for the purposes of securing the cloth equivalents thereof, outside, in the manner that surrounds the cushion. c is a piece of and'for the purpose set forth, but I do not cork, prepared ot' suitable thickness, and claim the materials irrespective of this ar-l pla el next to the Wood a, and made to form rangement.

cushion. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the improved cushion, showing the arrangement of its parts.

ay is the wooden portion ofthe rail, made of part ofthe cushion. d is a piece of india rub- JOHN M. BRUNSWICK. ber,`molded in suitable form and arranged in Witnesses: front of the cork c, as represented. e is a piece CHARLES L. FISHER,

of pasteboard, made to cover the exposed parts H. E. CLIFTON.

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